John Pike
John Pike
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As with every other weapon, there is no reason to hope that it is going to work perfectly all of the time.
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The story most people around the world have is that the Americans are up to their old tricks - committing atrocities and lying about it. And that's completely incorrect.
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They are one-company towns. That's going to drive the local political activism to keep the bases open.
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If you're not going to have a lunar landing until 2018, how are you going to keep people and Congress interested?
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I think the United States needs to engage with India and Pakistan to help them deploy a limited number of nuclear weapons in the most stabilizing fashion possible.
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I just don't think we've got this thing figured out yet. And I can't detect that we've set in motion a process for figuring it out.
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It sounds like it's, unfortunately, about what you'd expect, because the things do crash.
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There's some interest here in retrofitting barns. Most farms in Southern Illinois don't have a lot of on-farm storage. And the local elevators and terminal elevators are not set up to hold grain. They have to move it out.
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I think we're going to see a package deal.
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They've hired a lot of new people. You know they are not all going to be adequately trained, that's a fact of life.
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The bottom line is that the U.S. government looked at this imagery and decided that it was OK for it to be publicly released,
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I don't think they're going to move a base to Florida because the governor is the president's brother.
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If it is an international transaction, the National Security Agency is monitoring it. The target is wide open: Essentially, it consists of anything that would be of interest to the U.S. government -- and the rest of the English-speaking world.